Interesting Times in Seattle

There's a Chinese curse ... "May You Live In Interesting Times".

For those of us in the newspaper industry, these are those times. 

I've always loved newspapers, from local columnists to comics to sports scores to headline news. I love wacky letters to the editor complaining about naked bicyclists and local politicians. AND... I love all that the online world has to offer. How all this shakes out over the next years will be fascinating. 

But every time the lights go out in a newspaper I feel a disturbance in THE FORCE.

I felt it this week ... as the Seattle Post Intelligencer vanished from the physical world and reappeared in the digital. The physical comics, mine included, are being offered to the paper still standing, the Seattle Times.

If you are a Stone Soup reader and live in the Seattle area, your voice could help me continue publication there. 

Call, write, email the Seattle Times and tell them you'd like to keep reading Stone Soup in a local paper. They care what readers think, and they won't know unless you tell them.

Thanks. 

PS... The Oregonian recently ran a comics poll to decide which 10 comics they might cut. A cost-saving measure. After a few weeks of polling and 1400 emails and letters, they decided not to cut any comics at all. Stone Soup was never on the chopping block, but for all my fellow cartoonists, I say WHEW.

Comments

[Kaya Singer]

I live in Portland and the only two reasons I still pay to have the paper dropped on my doorstep everyday is #1 StoneSoup #2 Crossword Puzzle. I've been reading StoneSoup since the early days when I lived in Eugene and it's still my favorite. There is so little good humor these days that I am very grateful!

[Jan Eliot]

Kaya, you made my day. I love hearing from a longtime reader, and it makes a day at the drawing board even more rewarding.

You are not alone in your devotion to comics in your newspaper. Readers everywhere list comics, crosswords and sports and their main reasons for continuing their newspaper subscriptions. It makes one wonder why newspapers would cut comics to save money.

Thanks again for your kind comment!